Ten Tinies

The tiny things in a kids' life are sometimes the most interesting and important ones. Not to mention cute! They are the details that are most often forgotten, but ones that you'd really want to remember.

I'm going to start recording the tidbits of everyday life, and once I have ten, I'll post them.

Here are ten tinies that I have in my mind right now.

1> The first Tiny is... tiny! That's what the boys call chocolate. When Zusha was little, we'd give him chocolate, but tell him he can only have a "tiny" piece. So it stuck! And Zusha passed it on to Gedalya. So now, chocolate in our house is called Tiny. When I call Adel a tiny baby, the boys interject and say, "She's an apple! She's a potato chip!"

Zusha's Tinies:
2> Zusha sometimes mishears new words he picks up from cheider, but refuses to listen to me when I correct him. So Clics used to be "clips" for a long time. And envelope is embelow.

3> Zusha calls a computer mouse an airplane!

4> He just loves actocavu! (That's avocado, for those that aren't multilingual enough. )

Gedalya's Tinies:
5> Gedalya is always either a baby zebra or a baby penguin. Haha.

6> Gedalya can't say "girl." He says "groll." Rhymes with "crawl." That's what I call Adi now, as well as meibooboo- Gedalya's version of maidele.

7> The poor kids always gets his hair caught by Adel's chubby fist! He has an obsession with touching Adel's face, so he gets really close in, and SWIPE! Adel has a handful or orange curls. Ouch.

Adel's Tinies:
8> For some reason, Adel likes to be on the bare wood floor MUCH better than on a mat or blanket. When I put her on her tummy on a blanket, she doesn't last more than 7 seconds before bursting out in tears. But on two occasions recently, I put her on the floor, and she stayed happily on her tummy for 15 minutes or more! Same goes for her back. Today she stayed on her back on the floor for ONE HOUR. She didn't have any toys, but just waved her arms and legs around and giggled.

9> Whenever Zusha passes by Adel, she starts smiling at him and making noises to get his attention. It works especially nicely when she's a bit fussy.

10> She loves to have her diapers changed, and giggles during the process. When she's crying and I put her on my bed to change her, she knows what I'm doing, so she calms down and smiles.